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Okay, maybe I should have said "Ostracized."

WAsnt Tebow ostracized for sucking at playing football?

No, it was for praying ... and before you begin a crusade against that let me say I am an atheist. It never bothered me that he took a knee to pray. What bothered me was all the hypocrites who claimed to be Christians who said what he did was offensive and belonged in the locker room.

A lot of football fans (and the majority of players btw) agree with him.

A lot of people believed that Jews should have been murdered by the millions in WW2, but that doesn't make it right.

Refusing to stand for a song that was originally written with a pro-slavery stanza can hardly be compared to genocide. But I find it ironic that bigotry would try to hide behind bigotry in an attempt to censor any protest of it.

Pro-slavery stanza? Enlighten me.

"Their blood has wash'd out their foul footstep's pollution.

No refuge could save the hireling and slave

From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave."

The mere mention of "slave" is not entirely remarkable; slavery was alive and well in the United States in 1814. Key himself owned slaves, was an anti-abolitionist and once called his African brethren "a distinct and inferior race of people."

Some interpretations of these lyrics contend Key was in fact taking pleasure in the deaths of freed black slaves who had decided to fight with the British against the United States.

In order to bolster their numbers, British forces offered slaves their freedom in British territories if they would join their cause during the war. These black recruits formed the Colonial Marines, and were looked down upon by people like Key who saw their actions as treasonous.